End of the Month, End of the Week Muse

One of  the email missives I look forward to comes in on it’s own schedule each month. It is from Andy Griffin of Mariquita Farm called “The Ladybug Letter”. Andy

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Eat that?

Hmmm… Eat that?: Agriculture secretary’s reassurance rings hollow in light of current industrial beef processing | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle “Every single carcass that’s processed is inspected by a USDA

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Sobering Thoughts for a Monday Morning Muse

Paul Krugman’s latest column focuses on food. Wander on over and check out his thoughts… Grains Gone Wild – New York Times These days you hear a lot about the

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Slow Gardening and Felder Rushing

It’s been a while since I last mentioned Felder Rushing, so today’s podcast led me back to his websites. One of the first things I saw online about Felder was

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Tuesday Shorts…Short takes from my reader feeds….

This morning was another of those mornings when the weather outside is livable. Too bad it will not last… Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 91. Heat index values

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Saturday morning muses at the end of summer.

I began thinking of the wordsmiths I enjoy who make their primary living working on the farm. I haven’t made it a point to search these folks out, but maybe I should. There is something about the solitude of farm work that seems to allow the wordsmiths it produces to let their words steep and age before they commit them to paper (or electronic replacements thereof).

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Saturday – First of September…High summer is over.

We slept in our own beds for the first time since Monday last night. The construction crew worked till almost 10pm making sure the most important part of the newly

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